Karl Popper Quotes

The Discovery Of Instances Which Confirm A Theory Means Very Little If We Have Not Tried, And Failed, To Discover Refutations. For If We Are Uncritical We Shall Always Find What We Want: We Shall Look For, And Find, Confirmation, And We Shall Look Away From, And Not See, Whatever Might Be Dangerous To Our Pet Theories. In This Way It Is Only Too Easy To Obtain What Appears To Be Overwhelming Evidence In Favour Of A Theory Which, If Approached Critically, Would Have Been Refuted.

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